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#MICROSOFT WORD FOR MAC FONT SMOOTHING MAC OS X#
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If you don't have it, but own Windows, you can just copy it out of Windows' fonts folder and open and install it on your Mac. I'm not sure how I got it (I never installed it) but it's installed on my OS X.

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It's the default interface font for Windows 95 and up, so it's well hinted for screen display.

It's basically Verdana with the letter spacing tidied up a bit.

Janu10:06 EST #2 A good alternative to Verdana for place where you need to squeeze lots of information into a small space is Tahoma, again by Microsoft.

Ps Got to your article via daringfireball. I have used verdana on my blog for a while, and it is a great basic font for on-screen readability. Things you can do to make text on OS X easier to read. There is no setting to go back to the OS 9 font renderer, and I have noĮxpectation that there will ever be one. Large blocks of smoothed text (with or without glasses). Upgrades to sharper, brighter displays-I still find it tiring to read

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After more than five years of using Mac OS X-and two I am 20/30 without glasses and, as far as I know, do not have any Indicate some kind of visual handicap on my part? Surely I’m not theĪny comments, suggestions or help you might offer will be most Settings? Does my inability to adapt to the OS X visual experience My 20/20 sight has been restored after a period of visual impairment.Īm I missing something? Is there some way to approximate the visualĬlarity I experience with OS 9 while using OS X by changing some After rebooting in OS 9 I breathe a sigh of relief. I’ve just spent about one hour twiddling with settings in OS X-with no

I’d love to purchase a new 17″, but will stay with Ti’sįor the foreseeable future, because OS X is just too hard on my I’m using a Titanium PowerBook G4-which is the best laptop for Have 10.3.9 installed, and have seen the same problem from my earliest Settings of font sizes, or shadowing, or anti-aliasing. Vision when I view OS X, or that I must be missing something related to That you were writing about exactly the problem I’ve been having.įor me, OS X is impossible to look at. I cameĪcross your comments in “Mac OS X 10.2-First Impressions” and saw I was searching the Web looking for help regarding OS X’s fonts. Screen fonts happy, as this letter from ATPM reader Neil Rubenstein But the changes have not been enough to make fans of Smoothed fonts are drawn darker than before, though the edges are Of the font smoothing, and the font renderer has improved in that

#MICROSOFT WORD FOR MAC FONT SMOOTHING MAC OS X#

Over the years, Mac OS X has gained options for controlling the style With font smoothing off, but Mac OS X calculates the spacingĭifferently, making the letters run together.

Older fonts like Geneva continue to have readable character shapes.

Font smoothing can be turned off for small sizes, but Lucida GrandeĪnd the other new fonts were not hand-tuned, and so the character.

It draws the user interface with Lucida Grande instead of Geneva andĬhicago (or Charcoal), and in most cases this is not configurable.

Through several different decisions Mac OS X comes down on the side of In theory, it should be possible to satisfy both preferences, but I think that at small sizes font smoothing makes Screen fonts look chunky and prefer the way OS X draws regular fonts Made them exceptionally easy to read on-screen. Fonts such as Geneva and Chicago were designed for the screen,Īnd the smaller sizes were hand-tuned down to the pixel. Opinions differ, however, about the role of screen fonts at small For instance, I think most PDFs look better in Preview It also does aĬomparatively good job at smaller sizes, for fonts that were designedįor printing. Thanks toĪpple’s font smoothing technology, most everyone agrees that OS X doesĪ great job of drawing text at larger sizes.

About my disappointment with Mac OS X’s font rendering.